Top 19 Quotes & Sayings by Joey Skaggs

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American celebrity Joey Skaggs.
Last updated on November 16, 2024.
Joey Skaggs

Joey Skaggs is an American prankster who has organized numerous successful media pranks, hoaxes, and other presentations. Skaggs is one of the originators of the phenomenon known as culture jamming. Skaggs has used Kim Yung Soo, Joe Bones, Joseph Bonuso, Giuseppe Scaggioli, Dr. Joseph Gregor, and the Rev. Anthony Joseph as aliases.

We function in a pack mentality. This is our tribe. And this is how we are exploited - sold a bill of goods and a household of products.
The media's job is to question a premise.
Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty. — © Joey Skaggs
Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.
I've always been a fine artist.
My art became very public.
It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.
When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people.
Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.
My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs. My hope is, that my work provokes people to look at things in a new way.
What do we believe? Why do we believe it?
I learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators, to bring attention to issues about which I felt passionate.
But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions.
Any journalist worth his or her salt wouldn't trust me.
But my favorite work is always my next piece.
Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical.
If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story.
It would make life much easier if I could have total faith and not question everything all the time, but I can't do it and I won't do it.
The media is not just the message. The media is a massage. We're constantly being stroked, manipulated, adjusted, realigned, and manoeuvered. — © Joey Skaggs
The media is not just the message. The media is a massage. We're constantly being stroked, manipulated, adjusted, realigned, and manoeuvered.
I created hoaxes. I confronted and challenged the majority opinion. I attacked, humiliated, and criticized the voice of the corporate mainstream media.
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